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June 03, 2006 - Paleocene Fossils, Clarke and Wilcox Co, AL

Today BPS went way down south to Clarke County, Alabama. We were quite excited because this was a new site Steve found, and we were chomping at the bit, ready to go. We found a good variety of bivalves and gastropods, a few shark teeth and ray teeth. The most numerous fossil we found is Flabellum cuneiforme pachyphyllum, a type of

July 21, 2001 - Clarke and Washington Co, AL

BPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day. We also collected at a privately owned quarry in Washington County, Alabama, where numerous echinoids, sand dollars, and foraminifera were found.

 


Forams with a sand dollar showing in the matrix.


Numerous sand dollars were found in this quarry.

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